Re: [080/119] sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks

Greg KH
2009-12-08T18:02:22Z

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:09:51PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:30:56 am Greg KH wrote:
> > 2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > ------------------
> > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> >
> > commit 49557e620339cb134127b5bfbcfecc06b77d0232 upstream.
> >
> > I got a boot crash when forcing cpumasks offstack on 32 bit,
> > because find_new_ilb() returned 3 on my UP system (nohz.cpu_mask
> > wasn't zeroed).
>
> Please also include "bdddd2963c0264c56f18043f6fa829d3c1d3d1c0"
> (sched: Fix isolcpus boot option) from Linus' tree which fixes
> a regression this introduces.

Now queued up.

thanks,

greg k-h